War mapper tweeted an image it said showed Ukrainian troops making gains southwest of the Donetsk city fought over for months.
On Sunday, Ukrainian Eastern Group of Forces Spokesperson Colonel Serhiy Cherevaty said that Ukrainian forces were making advances on the flanks around Bakhmut, without specifying where exactly.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces have reportedly conducted operations in six sectors of the front making gains in some of them, according to the Institute for the Study of War . The Russian Ministry of Defense and other Russian sources said that these gains include in the Lyman direction, in the Bakhmut area, along the Avdiivka-Donetsk City front, in western Donetsk Oblast, on the border between Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk oblasts, and in western Zaporizhzhia Oblast, the ISW reported on Sunday.
A Russian milblogger added that Ukrainian troops had made gains near Klishchiivka, around 4 miles southwest of Bakhmut. Remains of destroyed Russian tanks next to a destroyed house in the town of Svyatogirsk, Ukraine, on June 22. Ukraine said on Monday it's making advances near the Donetsk city of Bakhmut in its counteroffensive against occupying Russian forces in an assessment that coincides with the latest map of Ukrainian operations.The ISW also wrote on Sunday that Russian sources were describing Kyiv's moves"as smaller tactical operations than earlier Ukrainian counteroffensive operations.
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